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Working with streams in BASICHi I've been screwing around with streams and Spectranet, there's something I can't figure out. If you want to send data to a stream how can you tel…
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Spectrum LoadersI know YS did a few loaders in BASIC which I have tried on Spectaculator and fair play they do a good job, but are slow when adding your stuff into t…
... YS did a few loaders in BASIC which I have tried on ... snap2tap are 2 that were written for PC, but are there ... -
Bugaboo - speed run checker hackHi there, Here is a special mode of Bugaboo what helps you to press the jump key to perfect time. It is written in old-fashion magazine style for …
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and type these data in row (just 28 bytes):
Need help with keyboard scanning ?After getting frustrated with learning ASM for a while I'm back into it. The little listing below is using the ROM's PRINT AT routine to draw me a sp…
... the ROM's PRINT AT routine to draw me a sprite ... key it should exit to BASIC but it just stays there ... assuming this should work because in BASIC if you do
10 ...Best basic games 2017Hello! I suggest everyone to evaluate recently passed in Russia competition for the best game in basic 2017! http://events.retroscene.org/bbg2017/mai…
Hello! I suggest everyone to evaluate recently passed in Russia competition for the best game in basic 2017! http://events.retroscene.org/bbg2017/main_compoA SAVE routine to reduce Microdrive loading timesHello! Please i'd like to know if there is a SAVE routine written to reduce the zx microdrives loading times.
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Please i'd like to know if there is a SAVE routine written to reduce the zx microdrives loading times.Isometric enginesWhilst taking a breather from Chess development I've been playing around with a little isometric 'room' building idea. Just wondering what sort of…
... usually done with dirty rectangles in a buffer off screen, ... a specific routine isn't much bigger in bytes than ... plus you can save in areas where masking isn't ... Duel on the MSX? Although in Basic and very slow, its ... same on Speccy, but in Z80, and obviously a ...are there any basic conversions of machine code games out there?i need as many as possible as i would like to play around with them in basic.
i need as many as possible as i would like to play around with them in basic.Other than using attributes what other ways to detect collisions, when using char based movement?So I'm slowly working out the bits and pieces to write a game completely in assembly. I've been using attributes when writing in BASIC to detect whet…
... using attributes when writing in BASIC to detect whether and ... to check whether something in front of my ball ... Here's my version of BASIC's ATTR function. What you ... using this as a sub routine. But I'm not ... to return from subroutines in assembly with a return ...Saving in BASIC in ESXDOS, the date is interesting :)I just got my hands on a divMMC Enjoy Mini. What a fantastic device!!! So I tried saving/loading basic programs to the disk. A curious thing happens.…
... !!! So I tried saving/loading basic programs to the disk. A ...How would I turn memory paging on/off in Assembler?Sorry for the noob question. It's perfectly ok to do OUT 32765,48 in BASIC to turn memory paging off. But how do you do it in assembly language? I kn…
... to do OUT 32765,48 in BASIC to turn memory paging off ... how do you do it in assembly language? I know there ... 's an OUT in assembly and it's like ...Editorless AGD Now for Spectrum as well as Next/TimexI've updated the editorless version of AGD to 0.3, fixing the Next/Timex CLS routine and adding a Spectrum engine and compiler. For those not alread…
... , fixing the Next/Timex CLS routine and adding a Spectrum engine ... , this version will take code written in AGD script and turn it ... are no editors to get in the way so the full ...Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... ’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit ... that I want to add in to the game.
in to memory as and when ... heavy game just not achievable in Basic?
Thanks for any ...Are there any games/apps developed in Pascal or others?After talking to a friend of mine about a Hi-Soft Pascal I now wonder whether there are Speccy software pieces made [i]NOT [/i]in Basic, C, nor edito…
After talking to a friend of mine about a Hi-Soft Pascal I now wonder whether there are Speccy software pieces made [i]NOT [/i]in Basic, C, nor editors? If so, was the lack of memory the root problem or there were more?
TYZY10, a tool to store and display some small bitmapped imagesZY10 Builder ============ Download at: https://www.sendspace.com/file/rncgbo ZY10 is a file format/tool to store some small images on the Spec…
... conversion is a very basic colour guessing conversion, so ... images.
* in BASIC:
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* or in assembly:
ld a, < ... in it.
PPS. The conversion tool is written in ...Can I record binaries from any emulator with Basic commands, machine code, macros or something?Hello I do not know if this is the right place to put this question Normally with ZXSpin if I want to save a binary file, I'm going to: file ->…
... , etc
directly from commands in basic or from machine code, that ... are different files?
In pseudocode it looked something like ... the first piece of memory in a binary file
< ... The second piece of memory in a different binary file
Line - a one line arcade gameHi, I have published Line, a game written in a single line of BASIC. Thanks to Einar Saukas for additional optimisations, suggestions, and fixes. …
... Line, a game written in a single line of BASIC. Thanks to Einar ...Aznar, the Sport StarI am glad to submit a sports game for the BASIC 2020 contest hosted by Radastan: https://www.bytemaniacos.com/?page_id=3639 The game has been r…
... a sports game for the BASIC 2020 contest hosted by Radastan ... Computing, Twitter). It is written in pure ZX 48K Basic.
I ...How to write a simple game in C+asm.This is just a link to an old post in Development, about a post of making a simple game in C for the Spectrum. It was suggested that this thread shou…
... link to an old post in Development, about a post ... of making a simple game in C for the Spectrum. ... this thread should belong in this C forum as ... explains a bit more in BASIC what the game is doing ... -to-write-a-simple-basic-horizontal-scrolling-game-tutorial"]( ...pixel exact printingis there a way of doing this in basic? or by copying / modifying the rom code or using a completely new routine? so that print at x,x works more like…
... a way of doing this in basic? or by copying / modifying the ... or using a completely new routine? so that print at x ... that when u do it in assembler it just does it ... i want some kind of basic interaction...
i also ...im trying to understand what the graphics codes in inpaws meani would like to extract individual pictures from various adventures that are written in paw and paste them into my own. unfortunately i dont understa…
... from various adventures that are written in paw and paste them into ... understand what the graphics codes in inpaws mean. i tried deleting ... one picture in an adventure and comparing it ... if you start removing pictures in paw and thats why i ...Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…
I once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT ... or five bits. It was written in machine code of course. It ... feasible, and easier to program in BASIC, but it would be pretty ...Standard Development LibrariesSo after some time away I decided to re-register after a Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/SpectrumNez/status/1578158361236963328) led me to a Visu…
... with example code I had written in pastebin for that particular discussion ... />
So I continued on in this manner for other things ... anything similar that was already in an file that would use ... singular particular aspects of say BASIC ROM or using the AY ...line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…
... idea for the perfect line routine.
Unfortunately I haven ... time to make the routine itself.
In fact it is ... the distance and call the routine again with begin-half and ... of the rest.
The basic computes every pixeladress by adding ...The funniest thing we made with the spectrumHello. The funniest thing i made with the spectrum were championships with my buddy francisco on a game called 3d stunt car racer, i think that was t…
... rookies were learning BASIC on the HCs, in a rather ... only one BASIC part, containing my ASM routine disguised in a REM ... -trapping routine and started it. After that the BASIC programm ... deleted itselt (NEW). This new interrupt routine was ...What's you happiest speccy related memory?Mine would have to be coming home from school at lunchtime with a couple of friends, loading up manic miner or commando for a quick 30 minute game-pl…
... . I usually went back home in the school bus, so it ... black box with ZX Spectrum + written on it. I could have ... home, set up the ZX in ultra fast time (my dad ... of writing my first game in Basic. It was some kinda wimpy ...My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... /> 1) You'd written your BIOS in basic and then compiled to ... z80 asm. BASIC ... to compiler performance from BASIC to z80, I' ... its' salt is written in asm - BASIC won't cut it ... requires two things - an in-depth knowledge of the ...My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... another. He has written a BIOS in basic, and expects us ... -compiles any of the basic compilers for the spectrum, ... t see many OS's written in VB. He's certainly ... 64k of ROM using a BASIC compiler - I think ... into there in that space, if he chucked out BASIC, but ...
